Ex-Wiccans and Pagans.

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Not all of us are ex-Christians, Muslims, or Catholic. If you were once Wiccan, Pagan, Astaru or anything labeled under the Neo-pagan umbrella here is your chance to tell your story.
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I find their beliefs more fanciful. They seem more tolerant of others than christians. One girl I know tells me that she converses with trees. They seem really nice though. I find them easier to get along with than people I know who are Christians.

I think that's because it's a disorganized religion, so people pick out all kinds beliefs that are already screwy and then combine them.

Which is, of course, why paganism was the last "religion" I tried before finally getting around to atheism. They let you believe anything you wanted! Except nothing at all-- though my pagan friends (those who know, anyway) don't mind.

I have a lot of pagan friends... and while I find their beliefs less offensive, I tend to find them a lot sillier. I have some friends who genuinely believe things like Hades is mad at them (and told them so) or they have a dragon's soul but were born human or, in a particularly fun "event", that they can alter the "threads of fate" so that, retroactively, a man my friend wanted turned out to be married, but no one but my friend recalled that it was different before.

Great idea, Allison! How is the book coming along so far? If you are still wondering which format to use, maybe consider the style of back and forth chapters. I've seen this in fiction before and perhaps it could work in non-fiction. Chapter 1 is storyline A, chapter 2 is storyline B, then it alternates back and forth until the author finally has the characters meet each other and you realize the two story lines are connected.

Or you could just intersperse things at relevant times such as telling your personal story ... "and that's when I realized that ..."

Maybe the first half of the book is your personal story, and the second half is the arguments.

Or you could write a book of arguments as a fictional account, such as having characters making the arguments. Good luck with it!

So, my pagan friend the other day was talking about "cloudbursting" and I said to prove it. He had me close my eyes and do all this visualizing and then open them after a few minutes and see how the clouds looked different and smaller. I couldn't stop smirking. He convinced me to tell him why I was trying to keep from laughing. "Um, you know, clouds tend to move across the sky," I said.

I think the metaphorical atheist pagans are just trying to fit in, so they try to convince themselves they are metaphorical. And why can't there be metaphorical atheist Christians and other religions, too?